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EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Our Purpose...
To promote education opportunities through activities, such as distributing conservation and natural resources information, sponsoring training seminars, and organizing workshops.
Our Successes...

  • Camp Gallahue Environmental Education Workshop

  • Grant Writing Seminars

  • IDEAnet Training

  • Outdoor Classroom Workshops

  • Desktop Publishing Training

  • Computer College Workshops

FORESTRY COMMITTEE

Enhancing the stewardship of Indiana's forestry resources

Our Purpose... 
To promote the protection and wise use of our forest and tree resources through activities, such as sponsoring seminars, developing programs and organizing workshops.

Our Successes...

  • Indiana's Backyard Tree Farm Program

  • Forestry Field Days

  • Farm Fest Exhibits

  • Indiana Land Care Expo Demonstrations

  • Woodland Landowners Clinics

  • Tree Identification Trails

RURAL MATTERS COMMITTEE 
Focusing on the rural matters and the conservation of natural resources

Our Purpose...
Preserve and protect our natural resources while improving the quality of life through projects and programs that promote wise chocies in rural development.  

Our Successes...

  • Rural Fire Protection

  • Community Resources

  • Land Use and Planning Tools

  • Agritourism and Alternative Enterprises

  • Watershed Management

  • Bio-Mass and Renewable Energy Resources

URBAN COMMITTEE 
Focusing on the environmental effects of urbanization and the conservation of natural resources

Our Purpose...
To promote wise natural resource management through activities, such as workshops, promoting research, and distributing educational information.

Our Successes...

  • Home Builders Guide

  • Real Estate Professional Training

  • Technical Release (TR-20 and TR-55) Engineering Workshops

  • Erosion and Sediment Control Workshops

  • Retention Pond Management

  • "Building with Nature" Video & Workshops

  • Floodway Permit Training

  • Wetlands Workshops

  • Urban Development Planning Guide

  • Turf Grass Seminars


The strength of RC&D is the commitment of local people working together to solve local problems!
Creative programs, materials, and activities are developed through the commitment and experience of our volunteers. If you have an interest in natural resources, forestry, environmental education, urban conservation and planning, erosion and sediment control, economic development,
recreation, grant writing, marketing, rural matters, there is a place for you on one of working committees.

YOU can make a difference by volunteering to help. For more information about any committee, other RC&D programs, or the Council, call the Hoosier Heartland RC&D office 6041 Lakeside Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46278-1989.  Phone: 317-290-3250 Fax: 317-290-3150 
Email: hhrcd@hhrcd.org

The Hoosier Heartland RC&D Council, Inc. prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, marital, or familial status.



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